6.1 Flashcards
Unsupportive responses to emotional expressivity were found to be related to
greater child emotion dysregulation, poorer emotion coping and depressive symptoms
High levels of unsupportive responses to emotions by mothers and fathers was associated with
more anger dysregulation, less anger coping, less sadness coping and more depressive symptoms in children.
Mother’s unsupportive response to sadness and father’s unsupportive response to anger are associated with
their children’s depressive symptoms.
Emotion regulation is the extrinsic and intrinsic processes responsible for
monitoring, evaluating and modifying emotional reactions, especially their intensive and temporal features to accomplish one`s goals.
Emotion dysregulation may be reflected by
an inflexible and inconsistent and unpredictable management of emotion.
Risk factors for depression
Experiencing sadness frequently and under-regulating sad emotions may place children at risk for depression. Children in a family environment in which negative emotions are frequent, erratic and intensely expressed are more likely to respond with sadness that reinforces the likelihood of a dysregulated response. Maladaptive regulatory responses to anger may also contribute to depression.
By socializing regulatory patterns of different negative emotions, parents can (…)
Parents who utilize an unsupportive emotion socialization style tend to (..)
influence the likelihood of these responses in their children, thus indirectly influencing the development of symptomatology.
have children who express emotions in a dysregulated manner, resulting in a higher likelihood for internalizing and externalizing disorders, as well as poorer social competence. Parents thereby reinforce the notion that emotions are ‘‘bad’’ and should be suppressed. In turn, the child internalizes this emotion philosophy and adopts maladaptive regulatory styles.
The article poses four hypothesis:
1) children’s perceived unsupportive parenting is positively associated with more emotion dysregulation, less adaptive coping and greater depressive symptoms. 2) emotion dysregulation is expected to be positively associated with depressive symptoms, whereas emotion coping is expected to be inversely related to depressive symptoms. 3) maternal unsupportive responses to sadness are a stronger predictor of depressive symptoms than for anger and paternal unsupportive response to anger is a stronger predictor of depressive symptoms than for sadness. 4) more unsupportive parental responses increase a child’s vulnerability to depressive symptoms, whereas less unsupportive parenting decreases the association.
1) children’s perceived unsupportive parenting is positively associated with more emotion dysregulation, less adaptive coping and greater depressive symptoms.
Unsupportive parental responses for anger from both mothers and fathers were associated with greater child anger dysregulation and poorer coping with anger with one exception: unsupportive responses by mothers were not associated with child anger coping. The same was the case for sadness. Further, unsupportive parental responses for both anger and sadness by both mothers and fathers were positively associated with depressive symptom scores.
2) emotion dysregulation is expected to be positively associated with depressive symptoms, whereas emotion coping is expected to be inversely related to depressive symptoms.
Parental reports of child anger and sadness dysregulation were positively associated with depressive symptom scores, whereas parental report of child coping was negatively associated with depressive symptoms.
3) maternal unsupportive responses to sadness are a stronger predictor of depressive symptoms than for anger and paternal unsupportive response to anger is a stronger predictor of depressive symptoms than for sadness.
Mothers’ unsupportive responses to sadness were significantly associated with depressive symptoms, whereas mothers’ unsupportive responses to anger were not. Fathers’ unsupportive responses to anger but not sadness were significantly associates with depressive symptoms.
4) more unsupportive parental responses increase a child’s vulnerability to depressive symptoms, whereas less unsupportive parenting decreases the association.
Supportive parents good, unsupportive not
